In collaboration with local authorities, a love snack shop will be built next to the school to supply free lunch for needy students over the next few years.

Over two thirds of students at the school cannot enjoy a proper lunch due to financial difficulties and long distances from home.

They're in bistros and cafes and restaurants and shops all over Paris, and they're all ready to serve you at an hour's notice with an excellent meal that's probably got higher quality than Louis XIV even had.

Well, look, you didn't need a psychologist to tell you that when you have a mouthful of greasy, salty, crispy, delicious snacks, what's sitting in the corner of the room makes not a damn bit of difference to your gustatory experience.

NEW YORK Had you told me a year ago that I would attend a conference devoted to school lunches, I would have laughed. The closest that I have come to eating a school lunch lately is coach class food on long haul flights.